"OLD NASSAU" 



"Old Nassau" 




Edited and Published by 

Wilford Seymour Conrow 

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NEW YORK CITY 



This book is No./fl? of the Presentation Edition 

limited to ioo copies each 

signed by the composer of 

"Old Nassau" LJZ+Lfc 

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LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
Two Copies Received 

FEB 5 1906 

^CopyriffM Entry 
CLASS ST, XXC, No. 
COPY A. 



Copyright, 1905, by 

Wilford Seymour Conrow 

All rights reserved 

Published November, 1905 



The Autobiography 

OF 

KARL A. LANGLOTZ 



HARLAN PAGE PECK 

CLASS OF 1862 
AND PRINCETON 1858-62 

BY 

JOSEPH L. MUNN 

CLASS OF 1862 



THE MINISTRY OF HARLAN PAGE PECK 

BY 
FREDERICK E. SHEARER, D.D. 

CLASS OF 1862 



ARRANGEMENTS OF THE "OLD NASSAU" MUSIC 

BY 
ERNEST TROW CARTER 

CLASS OF 1888 



PORTRAIT SKETCHES 

BY 

WILFORD SEYMOUR CONROW 

CLASS OF 1901 



FOREWORD 

Already fifty classes of Princetonians have sung 
"Old Nassau," and for years this song has been 
held by them in a spirit of semi-sacred reverence 
as a cherished inheritance from former days. That 
it has had a large share in the development of the 
charm of the atmosphere and the admired spirit 
of Princeton, is unquestioned. A trip to Trenton 
for the purpose of making a portrait sketch of 
Mr. Karl A. Langlotz, interested the editor in the 
genesis of "Old Nassau" and in the lives of the 
men who gave it to Princeton. ' This interest has 
resulted in an effort to put the facts regarding 
these subjects in a form dignified, as befitting 
" Old Nassau," and permanent, that their record 
may be preserved in our Princeton world. This 
being a book of sentiment, it seemed more fitting 
that the text should be written, as far as possible, 
by the men most closely identified with the song. 
Mr. Langlotz contributes his autobiography and 
a new arrangement of "Old Nassau" dated 1905. 
The monograph on the early and undergraduate 

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life of the late Harlan Page Peck '62, and on the 
Princeton of his day, has been written by Mr. 
Joseph L. Munn, who, for forty years, was 
Secretary of the class of 1862. Dr. Shearer's 
Addendum sets forth the later life of his classmate 
Peck, with whom he was intimately associated 
for many years in the ministry of the Presbyterian 
Church. And Mr. Ernest Trow Carter '88, has 
included with his various arrangements of the 
"Old Nassau" music (reprinted with the kind 
permission of Messrs. G. Schirmer), a new one 
called "The Glee Club Arrangement." This is 
published for the first time in this book. The 
editor's sincere thanks are extended to the above, 
and to the many other Princetonians and friends 
of Princeton who have helped him, especially to 
Mr. Russell T. Mount '02. To do what honor 
he may to Harlan Page Peck '62, and to Karl A. 
Langlotz, and to cause their names, as well as their 
song, to be perpetuated, is the intent and hope 
of the editor. 








November, 1905. 



ILLUSTRATIONS 

PAGE 

Karl A. Langlotz (photogravure). — Drawing made 
from life at Mr. Langlotz's home in Trenton, N. J., 
in October, 1904, by Wilford S. Conrow '01 Frontispiece 

Edgehill Grammar School. — From the margin of the 
"Map of Princeton, Mercer Co., N. J." surveyed 
and published in 1852 by John Beran, City Survey- 
or, Jersey City, N. J., and lithographed by Sarony 
& Major, New York. Original in the possession 
of Mr. W. C. C. Zapf 5 

Faculty of Arts. — From the Catalogue of the College 
of New Jersey, 1858-59. Reproduced from the 
copy in the library of Mr. Joseph L. Munn '62 9 

Replica of the Original Manuscript of the " Old 
Nassau" Music. — The original, written in pencil, 
was given to the late Mr. W. C. Stitt, but could not 
be found by his heirs among his papers. Mr. Lang- 
lotz has endeavored to make an accurate replica of 
this first draft of his " Old Nassau " music 12 

Facsimile of the First Publication of "Old Nas- 
sau" in Sheet Music Form. — Published in 1859. 
From the original in the possession of Mr.Lewis 
W. Mudge '62 14 

Facsimile of Mr. Langlotz's 1905 Revision of his 
" Old Nassau" Music 20 

Nassau Hall in 1905. — From the photograph taken 
especially for this book by Messrs. R. H. Rose & 
Son, Princeton 25 

Harlan Page Peck (photogravure). — From portrait 
sketch made by Wilford S. Conrow '01, from Mr. 
Peck's Senior Class photograph in the album of 
Mr. Joseph L. Munn, '62 facing 29 

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PAGE 

Nassau Hall in 1860. — Reproduction from the col- 
ored lithograph of the painting by Mr. F. Childs, 
lithographed by Robertson, Seibert & Shearman, 
New York, and published by McGinness & Smith. 
From a copy in the possession of the editor 31 

Autograph of Dr. Maclean. — From the Autograph 
Album of the late Mr. George W. Purnell '62, in 
the possession of his daughter, Mrs. C. S. Gregor. . 32 

Map of Princeton in 1859. — Redrawn from Mr. 
Beran's map of 1852 (see note on illustration for 
page 5), and corrected for changes made to the year 
1859 35 

List of the Class of 1862 in Freshman Year. — 
Showing the name of Harlan Page Peck. Repro- 
duced from the College Catalogue, 1858-59 40 

Facsimile of Part of Mr. Peck's Triennial Letter 
to Mr. Munn, Secretary of the Class of 1862. 
— Original in the possession of Mr. Joseph L. 
Munn '62 42 

Pages from the Nassau Literary Magazine for 

March, 1859. — From the copy in the library of 43 
Mr. Joseph L. Munn '62 

" Old Nassau." — Reproduction of the first publication 
of the poem. From Mr. Munn's copy of the Nas- 
sau Literary Magazine for March, 1859 44 

Facsimile of the Title Page of "Songs of Old 
Nassau." — Original in possession of Mr. Joseph 
L. Munn '62 46 

Facsimile of "Old Nassau" in "Songs of Old 

Nassau." — From Mr. Munn's copy 47 

Nassau Hall, Commencement Day, 1904. — From 

photograph by 11. H. Rose & Son, Princeton 67 



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AUTOBIOGRAPHY 

OF 

KARL A. LANGLOTZ 




AUTOBIOGRAPHY 

OF 

KARL A. LANGLOTZ 

ITH considerable hesitancy 
I attempt to give a correct 
account of my life. I am 
able to remember certain ex- 
periences, but having never 
kept a diary, I can not al- 
ways vouch for accuracy as 
to dates. Therefore I beg that my readers will be 
lenient toward my attempt, remembering that 
I must go back seventy years. 



MY father was a musician at the Court of Saxe- 
Meiningen and teacher of the piano to the 
Duke, who was then Crown Prince. There were 
four daughters in my father's family when I was 
born on June 20, 1834. Being the first boy, great 

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things were expected of me. I do not know, but 
imagine, that my father decided to make a musi- 
cian of me upon first hearing the brilliance of my 
vocal powers. Having only four sisters for my 
playmates, it was natural that I should fall in with 
their games and amusements, such as playing with 
dolls and sewing. Seeing this, my father became 
very much disturbed, and decided to take a boy 
into the house, so that I might learn boys' ways. 
In that I showed sufficient aptness. I remember 
distinctly that on breaking one of our neigh- 
bors' windows I was not punished, but was given 
a great ovation. Dolls were dropped. And soon 
my companion and I were introduced into school 
life. 

From that time on I was taught the piano 
by my father, and the violin at first by Professor 
Mahr, and later by Professor Sulot. In due time 
I entered the Gymnasium Bernhardinum, where 
I stayed until I was eighteen. At that time 
my oldest sister, who had come to America 
to live, and was giving splendid accounts of the 
life there, advised me to leave the Gymnasium, 
devote my entire time to music, and join her in 
that country. At that early period, when the in- 
tercourse between the United States and Germany 



KARL A. LANGLOTZ 

was in its infancy, the most absurd reports about 
the former were spread about,and believed implicit- 
ly by the older Germans. Therefore my father 
was strongly opposed to my going. But at last 
with many misgivings, he gave his consent. 

About 1851 I was sent to Weimar where Liszt 
was Capellmeister, and Joachim, Concertmeister; 
and under these two I gained my ideas of music. 
I had the privilege of playing in the orchestra, 
when Wagner himself conducted, in the first pro- 
duction of "Lohengrin," which was given at 
Weimar. When I was thought sufficiently 
trained, the question of my going to America 
came up again. I was then nineteen years of 
age, and hence only one year before conscription 
would claim me. I applied to the police for a 
passport to make a journey to America to visit 
my sister, but was told it would be impossible 
for me to make the trip there, and back, in the 
year. Then I asked for a passport to Hamburg, 
and it was given me. So, accompanied by my 
father, I left home for that place. Hamburg 
being a free city, my home police could not pre- 
vent my going on board ship. My father's 
parting advice was, to be very careful when I 
landed about going out in the evening; to be 

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sure to walk in the middle of the streets, as the 
sidewalks were not safe on account of the many 
trap doors which might give way at any moment, 
and engulf an innocent stranger in a cellar from 
which he would never return. 

After a sail of seven weeks, I arrived in New 
York in the year 1853. Of course, having left 
my native country in such a manner, I was an 
exile until I should have become a naturalized 
citizen of the United States. In the meantime 
my parents died, so that I had no desire to 
return. 

I had studied some English in Germany by 
myself, but I found that I could neither speak 
nor understand it. At my request my sister found 
me a boarding house where I had for my room- 
mate an American who was very talkative. He 
and I would go to our room, and make ourselves 
comfortable each on his own bed, smoking my 
cigars. Then he would start in to talk, stopping 
only when out of breath, when I would chime 
in with a "yes" or "no," the only English words 
I had at my command. Very soon, however, my 
ear became sufficiently cultivated to understand 
him perfectly, and I frequently interpreted his 
words to our landlady. One great mistake in 

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studying a language is to feed the brain without 
training the ear. 

I lived in Philadelphia for two years, engaged 
chiefly in teaching music or concert playing. 
During my stay in that city I met, and on January 
10, 1856, married Miss Emma Rae. Among 



Edgehill Grammar School 



my pupils were the daughters of a Rev. Mr. 
Helm, then the head of a Young Ladies' Seminary. 
After this had closed, he took charge of the Edge- 
hill Grammar School for boys at Princeton. 
Wishing me to continue teaching his daughters, 
he procured me, as an inducement, twelve pupils 
from among his boys, and so persuaded me to 
move to Princeton. 



"OLD NASSAU" 

To Princeton, then, I came with my wife on the 
day after our wedding, January 11, 1856. At 
that time Princeton was only a little country 
village, quaint and picturesque, where knowledge 
and learning were sold for a consideration. The 
Camden & Amboy R. R. ran just back of the 
Canal, and from there hacks carried the pas- 
sengers to the town, up Canal Street to Mercer, 
and thence to Nassau Street. On arrival we 
took two rooms in the Nassau Hotel, the only 
one that kept open the year round. We had the 
best rooms the house afforded, which was, to be 
sure, some comfort to our pride. But we were 
not greatly pleased with our quarters, owing to 
the quality and quantity of the furniture. In 
our parlor was a sofa with three ancient claw 
feet; two bricks took the place of the fourth, 
so that the sofa could be used as a rocking chair as 
well. Two chairs and a two-legged table propped 
against the wall completed the equipment. 
However, our rooms were almost opposite the 
gate of the campus, and we could thus see all 
that was going on. As life in Princeton was 
quiet and monotonous, my wife and I used to 
amuse ourselves by looking out of the windows 
watching the students. We could see them at 

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the sound of the college bell going to prayers, 
attendance at which was compulsory; then to 
two recitations in the morning, and another in 
the afternoon; and again to prayers in the evening. 
The first year in Princeton was very pros- 
perous for Mr. Helm. But unfortunately the 
second year (1856-57) only twenty-five of 
the seventy-five boys returned to the school, 
and among the missing were ten of my pupils. 
This left me with only the four children of Mr. 
Helm and two of the school boys. The outlook 
at that time seemed gloomy. I had made a few 
friends among the college students, and when 
calling on one of them, I found him fencing with 
a friend of his. It happened that they differed 
on some points, and having learned to handle 
the foils in the Gymnasium, I showed them what 
they needed. They were so delighted that they 
urged me to take a class in fencing, saying that 
there were a number of them who wished to learn. 
Of course I did not refuse, for it seemed as if 
Providence had sent me this opportunity. In 
a few days I had a class of fifty students who con- 
tinued for the year. Of these, to my regret, I can 
remember but two — a Mr. Fuller and J. Dundas 
Lippincott. I think that with my fencing class I 

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may lay claim to the honor of being the first, or 
among the first, to introduce athletics into Prince- 
ton College life. Athletics, such as football or 
baseball, were not then known. At that time 
there was not even a gymnasium. And a cane 
spree I never saw until some years afterwards. 

After the work of the day, the students needed 
some physical exercise, which took the form of 
walks. The men, many of whom were South- 
erners, mingled much more with the families of 
the town than at present. The streets of Prince- 
ton were practically deserted by young ladies 
until about a quarter after five in the afternoon, 
when all the young people took their recreation 
together. 

In the meantime I was becoming better known 
in Princeton. About a year after the Edgehill 
School began to fail, Dr. Maclean, President of 
the College, engaged my services as a tutor or 
German teacher at a salary of $300 per year. 
This was in the fall of 1857. As the study of that 
language was entirely voluntary, the classes at 
the beginning of the session were generously 
attended. But as it involved extra time to 
attend class and to prepare the lessons, the men 
would drop off until my class of forty members 



KARL A. LANGLOTZ 

would be reduced to ten or so faithful ones. As 
the class was so irregular, I can recall but three 
names — Hutchinson, Howell and Evans. Three 
recitations a day all the week excepting Saturday, 
when there were but two, Chapel attendance 
morning and afternoon, and Sunday morning 
services, at which the Professors took turns in 
preaching, — this constituted the order of my days. 



COLLEGE Of NEW JERSEY. 



FACULTY OF ARTS. 



Rev JOHN MACLEAN, D. D.. LL. D., 

President 

JOSEPH HENRY, M. D„ LL. D., 

KtntrUQd Professor of Nat'u-al Pbliosopi r. 

STEPHEN ALEXANDER, LL. D., 

Professor of Hecuuictl PuUosopb/ Mil Astronomy. 

Rev. MATTHEW B. HOPE, M. D., D D., 

Professor of BellesJ/etlros ud Polities Ecososs/. 

Rev JAMES C. MOFFAT, D. D., 

Professor of Greek. 

Rev LYMAN H. ATWATER, D. D., 

Professor or MmUl ud Mors! Philosophy. 

ARNOLD GOTOT. LL. D., 

Pfofosur of Oology ud Physiol Geogr»r.r. 

GEO. MUSGRAVE GIGER. A.M., 

Professor of Latin. 

Rev. JOHN T. DOFFIELD. A. M., 

Profewor of lUtbenutici. 



COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY 5 


J. STILLWELL 3CHANCK, 


a. m:, m. d., 


Professor of Cbeauilrj- ud Lecturer w 


i Zeoiogj. 


Rbt. WILLIAM A. DOD 


. AM.. 


Lecturer on I be Pine Arte 




HENRY C. CAMERON, 


AM, 


Adjunct Profenor of Greek 




HENRY M. BAIRD, A.M., 


Tutor Id Greek, tnt. Teacher of 


Preach. 


JAMES McDOUGALL, Jb 


. A. M . 


Tutor iu MslteJnsUos, 




DANIEL S. GREGORY. 


A. B, 


Tutor in Belles Lettres. 




GERSHOM H. NMMO. 


A.B. 


Btgtslet. 




CARL LANGLOTZ 




Tescber of Gercaso. 





From the College Catalogue, 1858-9. 



My musical efforts were all private engagements 
between the students and myself. To be sure, 

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I very frequently played the Chapel organ, but 
not for remuneration. My first undertaking in the 
musical line in the College was the forming of a 
class of about thirty, known as "The Nassau 
Maennerchor." We gave a number of concerts 
in the town and nearby places. The members 
whose names I can bring to mind were F. B. 
Dorrance, E. Turner, John A. Gammon, J. F. 
Joline, A. G. Hoyt, E. E. Green, J. P. Hutchinson, 
J. C. Owens, W. H. Miller and E. A. Van Wagenen. 
We met for three years in what was known as 
Philosophical Hall. I think the breaking up of 
our organization came about in this way. We 
were asked to furnish the music for a Junior 
Speaking Contest which was to be held in the 
Chapel. Dr. Maclean asked me what we were 
to sing. The book we used was called "The 
Arion Glee Book,'* and our selections were taken 
from it. I answered, "A glee called 'The Valse,' 
another 'Kiss Me,' etc., etc.", all being parti- 
cularly well sung by the class. But the good 
Doctor thought they were entirely out of the 
question, and wanted to know if we could not sing 
"Jesus, Lover of My Soul" to one tune, and some 
other hymns to the other airs, as that would be 
more suitable music for the Chapel. Upon my say- 

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ing that that was impossible, we were not allowed 
to sing. 

Meanwhile had come the time for "Old Nassau." 
During the winter and spring of the year 1859, 
some of the seniors and tutors used to meet with 
me in a little old house on William Street, just 
east of the college grounds, where we would smoke 
and sing college songs over our glass of beer. 
When "Old Nassau" was written, we tried to sing 
it to the air of "Auld Lang Syne," but found this 
utterly unsuitable. Mr. W. C. Stitt, one of the 
company (probably then a tutor in the college, as 
he received his degree of M.A. the following 
Commencement), suggested that I should write 
original music to the words. I agreed, thinking 
the proposal and my agreement would vanish 
like the smoke from our pipes. I took the words, 
however, promising to compose the music some- 
time, — and then thought no more about it. But 
my memory was strengthened from day to day 
by Stitt, who requested it for "to-morrow." 
That day was long dawning. At last his deter- 
mination brought me up to the mark. I was living 
in a house opposite the large entrance leading into 
the Park of the late Judge Field, now owned 
by Professor Allan Marquand. There I was sitting 

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on my front porch smoking my peaceful pipe, 
when the energetic Stitt arrived on the scene, and 
asked me in an off-hand way if I had anything 
particular to do that afternoon. I answered "No." 
Immediately he produced pencil and music-paper 
saying, "Here is the 'To-morrow' so long prom- 
ised. Here is ' Old Nassau.' Now do as you prom- 
ised, and put the music to it." I did write 
the music then and there, with Stitt standing 
guard over me. When it was at last finished, I 
handed it to him thinking I would never hear of 
it again. With a smile and a " Thank you," he left 
me. 

I have no recollection of hearing my music to 
"Old Nassau" until long years afterwards. I 
did not know of any editorial mention of my name 
in connection with this music in the Nassau 
Literary Magazine for March 1859. Nor did I 
hear either of the publication that same spring 
of the "College Glee Book" containing my music 
to "Old Nassau," or of the publication later in 
the year of the song in sheet music form. It was 
only after coming to Trenton that I picked up 
a College Song Book and saw my music on the 
first page. Let me here express my heartiest thanks 
to the students of Princeton, who, by rendering 

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it in a masterful manner and with exceeding 
enthusiasm, have given it a name and worth I little 
dreamed of when I wrote it. 



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Facsimilk of thk First Publication of ''Old Nassau" 
in Shket Music Form 



For nine more years — until Commencement 
1868 — I continued to teach German in the college. 
During that time we had a "Musical Club" of 
about fifty voices, which proved a great success. 
During my last year as instructor in the college 

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(1867-68), a friend of mine, Captain A. Edmund 
Veyer, taught French. In 1868 Dr. Maclean 
resigned, and Dr. James McCosh was elected 
to the presidency. The chair of Modern Lan- 
guages was about to be formed. Dr. McCosh 
told me that it was much better to have the 
languages taught by natives, and that the in- 
tention was to have this chair of Modern Lan- 
guages divided between two, the salary being 
divided also. But about that time Captain Veyer 
died. General Joseph Karge was called to fill 
the professorship, and my services on the teaching 
staff of the college terminated. 

In the fall of 1868 I entered the Theological 
Seminary, from which I was graduated in 1871. 
Previous to that my t wife died, leaving me with 
four small children, three boys — Karl A. Jr., 
Clifton A. and Rae Langlotz — and one daughter, 
Emma E. Langlotz. During my Seminary terms 
I formed a Philharmonic Society of about one 
hundred and forty members. We met in the 
Seminary Chapel for two years and then dis- 
banded. In 1872 I married Miss Virginia I. 
Dunn, daughter of Dr. Jared I. Dunn, and two 
years later moved to Trenton. Here I have lived 
and have been teaching music ever since. My 

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second wife died October 2, 1902, leaving one 
daughter, now Virginia I. Kirk. 

This must end my sketch. What is before me, 
I shall know hereafter. I close with kindest 
regards for all Princetonians, and with thanks 
to them for their appreciation of my" Old Nassau." 



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By Harlan Page Peck '62 

Tune every heart and every voice ! 

Bid every care withdraw: 
Let all with one accord rejoice 

In praise of "Old Nassau!" 

Chorus : In praise of " Old Nassau," my boys, 
Hurrah ! Hurrah ! Hurrah ! 
Her sons will give, while they shall 
live, 
Three cheers for " Old Nassau." 

Let music rule the fleeting hour — 

Her mantle round us draw; 
And thrill each heart with all her pow'r, 

In praise of "Old Nassau!" 

Cho. : In praise, etc. 

No flow'ry chaplet would we twine 

To wither and decay; 
The gems that sparkle in her crown 

Shall never pass away! 

Cho. : Shall never pass, etc. 

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Their sheen forever shall impart 

A zeal beyond compare; 
And fire each ardent, youthful heart, 

To boldly do and dare! 

Cho. : To boldly do, etc. 

No earthly honors we bequeath, 

For Truth is her great law ; 
And Virtue's amaranthine wreath, 

Shall speak for "Old Nassau!" 

Cho. : Shall speak, etc. 

And when these walls in dust are laid, 

With reverence and awe, 
Another throng shall breathe our song, 

In praise of "Old Nassau!" 
Cho. : In praise, etc. 

Till then with joy our songs we'll bring, 
And while a breath we draw, 

We'll all unite to shout and sing — 
Long life to "Old Nassau!" 

Cho. : Long life, etc. 



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Nassau Hall in 1905 



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HARLAN PAGE PECK 

Class of 1862 

And Princeton 1858-62 



JOSEPH L. MUNN 

Class of 1862 



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Class of 1862 
And Princeton 1858-62 




HE College of New Jersey, 
popularly known as Princeton 
College, during the time of 
residence there of the class 
graduating in 1862, had in at- 
tendance rather less than one 
quarter the number of stu- 
dents now enrolled in Princeton University. 
The catalogue for 1858-9 shows 298 members, of 
which 104 were from the Southern States. The 
catalogue for 1861-2, which came out after the 
beginning of the Civil War, showed a total of 221 
students remaining in attendance, of whom fourteen 
were from Maryland, two from Virginia, one from 
Alabama and one from Louisiana. The Class of 
1862 lost something like two-fifths of its member- 
ship in a period of three weeks at the outbreak of 
the war. 

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"OLD NASSAU" 

In its buildings and equipment, the College was 
quite as far below the University of the present 
day, as was the College membership compared with 
the present enrollment. Nassau Street, passing 
in front of the campus, was built up on the north 
side with a line of small buildings, mostly wooden, 
some of which still survive. At the corner of 
College Avenue, then known as Woodhull Street, 
stood an old tavern called the City Hotel; and in 
the middle of Nassau Street, just east of the point 
where College Avenue intersects it, stood an old 
shack known as the Market, where country pro- 
duce and other eatables were sold. Prospect, 
now the President's house, was then the residence 
of the Potter family. It was acquired for the 
College in the time of Dr. McCosh. 

The front campus, between Nassau Street and 
Nassau Hall, is more nearly as it then was than 
any other part of the College grounds. The old 
elms and other trees were there, and one of the 
Class of 1862 now visiting Princeton may lie under 
them, as he did in his college days, and looking 
toward the Dean's house may see very little that 
was not then to be seen. Old North looks very 
much as it did, except for the lions which flank 
the steps. The house now occupied by the Dean 

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HARLAN PAGE PECK 




VSmrwr SLM33MT HLViffi, 



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"OLD NASSAU" 

was then the President's house. It was the resi- 
dence of Dr. John Maclean, whom Dr. Charles 
Hodge once called the "best loved man in Amer- 
ica." The affection which the college boys of 
those days had for this old man is one of the most 
prominent among college memories, and this 
affection was reciprocal, for all the students 
were like sons to him. 





Autograph of Dr. Maclean 



Three parallel paths crossed the front campus 
leading from Nassau Street, where an iron fence 
was pierced by three gates. The central path led 
straight to the steps of Old North. The western 
path, located where it is now, as may be known 
by the great age of the trees that flank it, led past 
the President's house. The eastern walk passed 
a house, similar in size and appearance to the 
President's, which was at that time occupied by 
Dr. Lyman H. Atwater. 

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HARLAN PAGE PECK 

Immediately in the rear of the President's 
house was a building which still remains, and is 
now occupied by the College Offices. It had once 
been used as the library, and as a place for the 
meetings of Clio and Whig Halls. In the 
time of the Class of '62, it was known as the Reci- 
tation Building. The recitation rooms for the 
Sophomores and Freshmen were on the lower floor 
or partial basement of the building. The floor 
above was divided into two rooms, fitted up with 
se^ts arranged in concentric semi-circles rising 
rapidly to the rear. These were used as the prin- 
cipal recitation rooms of the Senior and Junior 
classes. The Recitation Building had its counter- 
part, called Philosophical Hall, at the other end 
of Old North, and behind Dr. Atwater's house. 
There Dr. Stephen Alexander lectured on astron- 
omy and higher mathematics; Dr. Schanck gave 
some elementary instruction in chemistry; and 
Dr. Arnold Guyot sometimes met his classes in 
physical geography. Arranged about the one 
large room, to which the steps led, were a number 
of cases of scientific instruments and equipment 
belonging to the College. Dr. Joseph Henry's 
original batteries and wires, with which he dis- 
covered the possibility of transmitting electrical 

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"OLD NASSAU" 

energy through a mile or more of wire, were still 
on exhibition there, guarded by a life-sized man- 
ikin in a glass case. The lower or basement floor 
was occupied with a miscellaneous assortment of 
second-hand furniture, over which Dennis, one of 
the College servants, presided. For in those days 
a student leaving college sold out his room to some 
newcomer selected by himself, who thereupon 
began the occupancy of the room without much 
regard to the faculty. Or else he sold his be- 
longings to Dennis for about ten per cent, of their 
value, and the newcomer bought in turn from 
him, paying certainly not less than their full worth. 
Thus the front campus, with its three parallel 
walks, the houses of the President and Dr. At- 
water, the Recitation Building and Philosophical 
Hall, and North College, gave the impression of 
studied symmetry. 

Due south of the Recitation Building stood Dr. 
Hope's house, which seems to have been usually 
assigned to the Professor of Belles Lettres. After 
Dr. Hope's death, in our time, it was occupied 
by his successor, Dr. Mcllvaine. The site is now 
covered by Reunion Hall. 

The south campus, surrounding the cannon, was 
also symmetrical in its arrangement. It was 

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HARLAN PAGE PECK 




Map ok Princeton in 1859 



35 



"OLD NASSAU" 

bounded by West College, which still remains; 
East College, identical with West in appearance 
and size, and now torn down to make room for 
the University Library; the Hall buildings at the 
south, which were on the site of the present Whig 
and Clio Halls, although of wood and smaller; 
and the rear of Old North as now. At the east 
end of North College stood the College Chapel. 
The location of these buildings is shown by the 
map on the preceding page. 

The only other College building of our time 
was an old rambling wooden affair at the south- 
east corner of Woodhull and William Streets, 
called the "Old Refectory/' This was divided 
into a number of dormitory rooms, with a hall 
reserved for the meetings of the Philadelphian 
Society. A plan of feeding the students in com- 
mons had been abandoned before our time, and 
the present series of Upper Class Clubs had not 
been initiated. The students either obtained 
table-board at private boarding-houses in town, or 
organized themselves into eating club similar to 
those now in vogue in the two lower classes. These 
clubs were named with an appropriateness or 
grotesqueness emulated by the Sophomore clubs 
of the present day. A considerable number of 

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HARLAN PAGE PECK 

the Class of '62 belonged to the Hickory Club, 
which maintained its existence until the end of 
our college course. Such clubs generally had a 
dining and a reception room in some house on 
Nassau Street. 

North, East and West Colleges were the dor- 
mitories, and accommodated most of the students 
of that day. The rear extension of Nassau Hall 
was completed and fitted up during our time for 
the College Library. The dormitory rooms were 
cared for by three or four janitors, Dennis, the 
furniture dealer, having charge of the three floors 
of the east end of North College. This, it may 
be remarked, was the only building which was 
nominally warmed by hot air ducts from furnaces 
in the basement; these sometimes worked, some- 
times overworked, and sometimes refused to work. 
Most of the rooms in East and West Colleges 
were fitted up with grates for coal, which was 
kept in large boxes in the hallways. When the 
grates proved inefficient, the student had recourse 
to stoves. 

Ordinary repairs, such as replacing broken 
windows, were made by a servant known as the 
College carpenter, whom the boys called Old 
Steve. Whenever he appeared on the campus, he 

37 



"OLD NASSAU" 

was followed by the clamor of students needing to 
have repairing done, all of which he at once promised 
to make in the course of the next half hour, and as 
promptly forgot. Another College servant whom we 
all remember very well was a young colored man, 
whose principal duty it was to take care of the 
philosophical lecture room, and to wait on Dr. 
Alexander, who called him Alfred. The students 
styled him Buck, Assistant Professor of Natural 
Philosophy. He was a very successful manipu- 
lator of the few mechanical appliances in use for 
the illustrations in Physics, and would quietly 
arrange the apparatus while Dr. Alexander 
lectured. Larry, a fireman, who attended to the 
furnaces beneath Old North, a dwarfish and 
squalid figure, occasionally emerged into day- 
light. He is chiefly remembered from his 
famous comment on the occasion when the 
Rutgers students "scooped" the small cannon. 
Larry remarked that if he had been there, and 
"seen them adoin 9 it, they would all have walked 
out of the campus dead corpses." 

Athletic recreations in our time consisted in a 
sort of football, played with a large round rubber 
ball, and with fifty or more students on each side. 
One of the rules of the game was that no one 

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HARLAN PAGE PECK 

should touch the ball with his hands, except when 
it went out of bounds. The play can well be 
described as a "shindy." The season was Sep- 
tember and October. As has been shown in the 
book on Princeton Athletics, baseball was organ- 
ized at Princeton, first as the Baseball Club of 
the Class of 1862, and later as the Princeton Base- 
ball Club, to which members of other classes were 
admitted. This became an established college 
sport, with the playing rules that then prevailed 
in professional clubs. The pitcher then pitched 
the ball, and was not allowed to throw it. There 
were no such things as balls and strikes, the batter 
waiting until he got a ball that suited him. A 
Cricket Club was also organized in our time, and 
divided the interest with baseball. When we 
entered Princeton there was no gymnasium. But 
during our course a wooden apology for one was 
erected very nearly on the site of what is now 
called the Old Gym. There were also some brick 
walls for handball on a field in the rear of West 
College, between the present sites of Alexander 
and Witherspoon Halls. 

The form of hazing most prevalent was smoking 
out the Freshmen. Attempts were made to rush 
them, — not as organized Class against Class, but 

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•OLD NASSAU 



in small groups, which had a tendency to make 
the Freshmen keep together whenever they ap- 
peared. So-called Horn Sprees were occasionally 
indulged in, with an amount of clamor at least 
equal to that of the Freshmen at the Sophomore- 
Freshmen baseball games of to-day. And there 
were other reliefs from the monotony of the class- 
room which might as well be forgotten. There 
were boys in those days as now. There was as 
much freshness in proportion to numbers. And 
the Sophs had the same domineering spirit as now. 



l-< > COLLEGE OF NEW JER8ET 


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From the College Catalogue, 1858-tf 
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HARLAN PAGE PECK 

Harlan Page Peck entered the Class of 1862 
with its matriculation in College, on the 12th day 
of August, 1858. For in those days the College 
year was divided into two terms, one of which 
began early in August, and ended about the 20th 
of December. The other began in January and 
terminated with the annual Commencement. 
Thus there were two vacations of six weeks each, 
one in summer, another in winter. In response to 
the circular sent out three years after graduation, 
he wrote to the Class Secretary from Chicago, 
giving a brief outline of his life to that date. He 
was born April 5, 1837, in the town of Alden, Erie 
County, New York. His father, Nelson Peck, 
was a physician practicing in that place until 
1849, when he removed to Chemung, McHenry 
County, Illinois. His father was killed in 1855 by 
the accidental discharge of his gun while hunting. 
His mother had died when he was but eighteen 
months old. In the autumn of 1856, he entered 
the Academy of the Old School Presbyterian 
Church at Bethany, New York, and remained 
there nearly a year. In the fall of '57 he entered 
Genesee Academy in charge of the Rev. 
James Inglis, and was graduated in June, 1858. 
He was admitted to College in August of that 

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"OLD NASSAU" 



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Facsimile of Part of Mb. Peck's Triennial 
Letter to Mr. Munn, Secretary of the Class or 1808. 

year. Immediately upon graduation he returned 
to Illinois, and in September of 1862, took charge 
of the public school in Belvidere of that State, 
where he remained until April, 1863. In that 
year he entered the Presbyterian Theological 
Seminary of the Northwest at Chicago, where he 
was at the time of writing. Peck was therefore 

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HARLAN PAGE PECK 

more than twenty-one years old when he entered 
College, with an appearance of maturity that fully 
justified his years. He was grave and quiet, not 
interested in athletic sports, and was prominent 
principally because of his verse. Everybody 
knew him of course, for in those days each student 
knew almost everybody in College, whether in his 
class or not. 

About the middle of our Freshman year, the 
Nassau Literary Magazine, known to us as the 
Lit, seems to have offered a prize for a college 
song. I do not find evidences of the way in which 
this was offered. Possibly it was by posting a 



tfbitors for tjje Current Session 





CL ASS OF 13S5 


UARCH. 


C. B. MORRIS. X. J 


APKH, 


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SUSEI D DAVIS; Pi. 


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C0HT8NTS. 



Prize Essay, 

My Orphan Hove, 

College Politics, 

Mabttn- Luther, • 

The Neophyte Skater, 

Buxid History, 

Byron and Wordsworth, 

"Tete D'Armee." 

National Associations. 

Prize Song, 

The Oatb or Galileo 

The Mount Vernon Papers. 

Man no Creator 

My Old Meerschaum, 

The Mathematical Monthly, 

Editor's Table, 



Page 103 
207 
208 
212 
217 
210 
224 
229 
230 
236 
237 
239 
244 
247 
249 
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CHART.TO B. MOBEIS. BDITOB. 
Vol. JJX MARCH, 1859. 

WAR AND HUMAN PROGRESS. 

prize essay: by a, etxbett busseil, of NEW YORK. 

By human progress we understand the continual advancing 
of mankind to higher states of individual and social capacity. 
Simple subsistence by the chase gives way to tho culture of the 
earth ; and " agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since 
the productions of nature are the materials of art."* 

The history of the world presents a grand illustration of this 
progress. Century after century has witnessed a gradual develop- 
ment of human forces, which have combined, and are combining 
still, to exemplify the same onward law Progress is the corner- 
stone of science ; and science is at once the glory and the proof of 
progress. A nation's greatness is in its advancement ; and civil- 
ization marks the true grandeur of all nations. Progress is the 
great truth written by God in history, nature, and the .human 
soul. Revelation -sanctifies this triple statute ; and girt about with 
a divine power, man goes forth " conquering and to conquer." 

At the risk of repetition, let us make a fair statement of our 
question. That man has made great progress is the clear testi- 
mony of history and experience. It is equally clear that bloody 
and inhuman wars have desecrated humanity, in its successive 

•Oibtou 



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1868.] 



The OalK of Galileo. 



is in this respect that associations are powerful as national. The 
government and the individual should be like the parts of an 
ancient temple — while the grand dome covers and protects, the 
pillars should be so joined to it as to be its support and its strength. 



'OLD NASSAU." 



PRIZE SONG BY B. P. PECK, 1C. T. 

Am — " Avid Lang Syne." 

Trai every harp and every voice I 

Bid every care withdraw : 

Let all with one accord rejoice 

In praise of " Old Nassau I " 

Caoacs : In praise of " Old Nassau, " my boys. 
Hurrah t Hurrah 1 Hurrah t 
Her eons will give, while they ahall live. 
Three cheers for " Old Nassau " 

Let music rule the fleeting hour — 

Her mantle round us draw ; 
And thrill each heart with all her pow'r, 

In praise of " Old Nassau I " 
Gao : In praise, Ac. 

No flow'ry cbaplet would we twine 

To wither and decay ; 
The gems that sparkle in her crown 

Shall never pass away t 

Cho : Shall never pass, Ac. 

Their sheen forever shall impart 

A real beyond compare ; 
And fire each ardent, youthful heart. 

To boldly do and daro I 
Cho: To boldly do, Ac. 

No earthly honors we bequeath. 

For Truth is ber great Law ; 
And Virtue's amaranthine wreath, 

Shall speak for " Old Nassau I " 
Cho: Shall speak. Ac 



And when those walls in dust are laid. 

With reverence and awe, 
Another throng shall breathe our song. 

In praise of " Old Nassau" 
Cao: In praise of, Ac. 

Till then with joy our songs we 'U bring. 

And whilo a breath wo draw. 

We 11 all unito to shout and sing — 

Long life to " Old Nassau t " 

Cho: Long life, Ac. 

Trince-tox, /W. 1359. 



THE OATH OF GALILEO. , 

The precise form of the oath, by which Galileo was forced to 
abjure the principles of the Copernican system, is, perhaps, not 
generally known. It is occasionally presented in a few detached 
traces, the whole end of which is to mislead the judgment in pass- 
ing its sentence apon the men, at whose instigation he was thus 
compelled to abandon his belief. The oath itself is a living record 
of the dark age in which it was written, as well as of the trials to 
which the men of science at that period were subjected. It is 
peculiar not only for its length, but also for its division into three 
distinct parts; the recital of each of which'was made solemnly im- 
pressive by the pomp and parade of the Romish Cardinals. 

Not only do its singular forms of expression, and the importance 
which attaches to the oath in. an historical point of view, fully 
entitle it to a publication in the Nassau Literary, but it is eminently 
appropriate also that a Magazine which is the exponent, in one 
sense, of an Institution of teaming, should be the first, in this 
country at least, of giving to its readers an account of the hard- 
ships with which the philosophers of former time were necessitated 
to grapple. It was originally written in modern' Latin, and has 
been literally translated into English from the text of J. B. Rio- 
cioli. Should the article fail to please as a literary production, its 
novelty must be the apology for its publication. Besides the copy 



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notice on the Bulletin Elm, where so much of the 
advertising of our time was done. The Bulletin 
Elm was a large tree, the largest in the campus 
grounds, which stood just in front of the east end 
of North College at the intersection of the walks, 
quite convenient for those going to or coming out 
of Chapel, which was near by. In the Nassau 
Lit for March 1859, appears" ' Old Nassau.' Prize 
Song by H. P. Peck, N. Y. Air — 'Auld Lang 
Syne.'" At the end of the verses is the date 
"Princeton, Feb, 1859" Thus the date of the 
writing of "Old Nassau" is fixed. The song as 
composed contained seven verses, and is repro- 
duced in this book. The verses ordinarily used 
are the first, second, sixth and seventh, which 
are sung as they were written with the exception 
of a single word. "Harp" in the first line of the 
poem, was afterwards changed to "heart." I 
well remember that we sang the words to the air 
of "Auld Lang Syne," and it was some time before 
the music written for it by Mr. Langlotz entirely 
superseded the earlier air. About the beginning 
of 1859, Andrew J. Hetrick undertook the col- 
lection of a suitable variety of songs for use in the 
College of New Jersey. The book was published 
by M. W. Dodd of New York, and copyrighted 

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Tune every harp and every voice I 

Bid every carg withdraw ■ 
Let all with one accord rejoice 
In praise of Old Nassau ! 
Chorus — In praise of Old Nassau, my boys, 
Hurrah ! hurrah ' hurrah I 
Her sons will give, while they shall Liv» 
Three cheers for Old Nsmau. 

Let music rule the fleeting hour — 

Her mautle round us draw ; 
And thrill each heart with all her power, 

Id praise of Old Nassau ! 
Chorus — In praise, tc. 

No flowerv chaplet would we twins 

To wither and decay; 
The gems that sparkle in her crown 
Shall never pass away 1 
Chorus — Shall never pass, tc 

Their sheen forever shall impart 

A zeal beyond compare ; 
And fire each ardent, youthful heart, 
To boldly do and dare I 
Chorus— -To boldly do, Ate 

No earthly honors we bequeath. 

Pot Truth is ber great law , 
Arid Virtue's amaranthine wTeath 

Shall speak for Old Nassau ' 
Chorus — Shall speak, &c 



Facsimile of "Old Nassau" in "Songs of Old Nassau. " 
(The last two verses appeared od the next page.) 



by him in 1859; and Hetrick's preface is dated 
April 11th of that year. And this, the first Prince- 
ton song book, contains "Old Nassau" with the 
words by Peck, and the music by Langlotz. I 
think none of us, not even the author of the words 
or the composer of the music, had at that time 
any notion that for forty-five years that song 
would be sung as Princeton's benediction, at 
every College parting and in every important 
intercollegiate game, in victory and in defeat; 

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or that its words were so well adapted to express 
the spirit of the sons of Old Nassau. 

Peck was a prolific verse writer, and, as I think, 
of greater merit than the average college poet. 
In the thirty- two numbers of the Lit, published 
while he was in College, there appear at least 
twenty-seven of his metrical compositions. These 
are almost invariably in a serious vein; very few 
are especially ambitious. They relate to quiet 
topics inspired by the memories of his earlier life, 
such as the "Home on the Hill;" and a few others 
suggested by his College life, and current events. 
Two or three of them have special reference to 
war times, and are full of earnestness and serious 
patriotism. Taken altogether they remain still 
worth reading, at all events by his classmates, 
and will recall our College days as perhaps no 
prose can do. I am able to identify these pieces 
now for the reason that having been one of the 
editors of the Lit, I made notes on the index 
pages of my copies, from time to time, of the dif- 
ferent authors. Peck wrote over various signa- 
tures, one of which was "Abel Darno," another 
the initials "X. E. P.," and a third "Noel Draab." 
Peck was the author of the Class Song of '62, and 
of the Class Poem. The latter is a somewhat 

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HARLAN PAGE PECK 

elaborate composition in several different metrical 
forms and composed of 555 lines, nearly the length 
of the first book of Homer's Iliad, — which it does 
not resemble. 

I trust that these reminiscences may prove 
interesting to those of my own time, and perhaps, 
to some extent, to others who have rejoiced "in 
praise of Old Nassau." 




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ADDENDUM 



THE MINISTRY 

OF 

HARLAN PAGE PECK 

During his course in McCormick Theological 
Seminary, Mr. Harlan Page Peck was licensed to 
preach the Gospel as a probationer for the holy 
ministry by the Presbytery of Chicago, and the 
next year was ordained and installed as Pastor of 
the Church at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, in the 
bounds of the Presbytery of Winnebago. He re- 
mained there two years, adding meanwhile more 
than ten per cent, to the membership of the Church. 

While in the Seminary, he had married. In 
1868 he was invited to become Stated Supply 
of the Church at Marengo, Illinois, and chiefly 
in order that his wife might be nearer the home 
of her parents and her friends in Chicago, he 
embraced the opportunity. In the first year of 
his labors the membership of the Church increased 
more than twenty-five per cent. 

Two years later he was called to the Church in 
Lincoln, Nebraska, then a growing city. There 
he labored nearly four years among a devoted people 
with much success. He went to a Church of 
about fifty members; in the first year thirty-nine 

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"OLD NASSAU" 

were added, the next year forty-nine, and about 
half as many in the third year. The Church rose 
to a commanding position, and he was greatly 
respected and esteemed both by the resident pop- 
ulation and the distinguished men in official po- 
sitions of the commonwealth. 

In 1875 he accepted the call to become the Stated 
Supply of the Church of Fairmount, a suburb of 
St. Louis, and during his year there, the member- 
ship of the Church increased about one-fifth. 

The next year there came a call from the Church 
in Salem, Oregon. He accepted it, and soon 
became influential in the city and the State. 
In the first year of his ministry the increase of 
membership was more than one-third of the total 
communicants, and the next year nearly as many 
more were added. His congregation included 
many of the most cultured men and women of the 
city. 

About 1880, Mr. Peck was married a second 
time in San Francisco, California. The following 
year he became the Stated Supply of the Church 
of Merced, one of the flourishing towns of the 
San Joaquin valley, California, and took his letter 
to the Presbytery of Sacramento. In Merced 
his work was also successful, as it had been in 
other places. More than twenty-five per cent, 
were added to the membership in the first year, 
and the congregation increased greatly. 

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THE MINISTRY OF HARLAN PAGE PECK 

From Merced he removed to a small town in 
southern California. He went in 1883 to the 
Klicitat Country, a sparsely settled region of 
what is now the south central part of the State 
of Washington. It is probable that he expected 
to settle somewhere in the vicinity of a beautiful 
and picturesque place called Sedalia, in a new 
home on Government land. But soon after his 
arrival there, he died, and the place of his sepul- 
ture is unknown. 

It must ever be a matter of regret to those who 
knew him at Princeton and there united with him 
in the gladness of " Old Nassau," and who were 
warranted in prophesying a brilliant future for 
him, that he came to his grave before the fullness 
of his time. But he lived and died exhibiting 

" The splendour of a spirit without blame." 





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NOTES 



NOTES 

Page 37, line 6. 

Mr. Peck, while in College, roomed during his 
Freshman year in 7 Refectory ; Sophomore year in 
20 West College; and Junior and Senior years in 
15 East College. • 



Page 13, line 16. 

Prize Song. — We are gratified to present to our readers 
this new feature in College literature, not only on account 
of its own merits, for it is weaned and will take care of itself, 
but because we hope it will not be left by the future editors 
to wend a lonely way through life, and its gray hairs be 
brought in sorrow to the grave through want of a com- 
panion. Let others follow it, and then the time will soon 
come when "Old Nassau's" sons — would that there were 
daughters too — roused to healthy rivalry, will emulate and 
provoke each other to noble strife. 

The music for this song has been written by Mr. Langlotz. 
The thanks of every true son of the College, as well as every 
lover of music, are due to him for his kindness and trouble. 
We presume it would give him much pleasure to hear his 
music make the welkin ring. — Editor's Table, Nassau 
Literary Magazine, March 1859. 

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Page 45, line%l. 

College Glee Book. — It is well known in and around 
College, that a collection of Original College Songs is to be 
issued in a book form, edited by one of our own number. 
As we have not seen this book, we know nothing of its 
merits, but surely great praise is due to the public spirit 
and energy of its editor and contributors. Its publication 
is awaited with interest as well as curiosity. — Editor's 
Table, Nassau Literary Magazine, March 1859. 



Page 45, line 25. 

The following are excerpts from the more inter- 
esting parts of Mr. Hetrick's Preface to his 
" Songs of Old Nassau." 

« # * * j n t ne g rs t pl ace> since the founding of this 
institution, no collection of our songs has been made, and, 
in fact, there has not existed sufficient material for such a 
collection, had anyone been willing to undertake so pleasant 
a task. This last fact may not be a little surprising to those 
who know that Nassau music extends as far back as the 
year 1763, when a song, composed for the occasion, was 
sung by the graduating class of that year, at the time of 
their taking the Bachelor's degree. This song, or opera 
rather, was called the "Military Glory of Great Britain," 
and was published in pamphlet form, with music to the 
choruses. * * * 

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NOTES 

From the year 1763, down to the present, no songs, as 
far as I can learn, have appeared on the programme of our 
public exercises, with the exception of the Ode and Hymn 
that were sung at the first centennial celebration of the 
College in 1847, and of the parting odes that have been com- 
posed, for some years past, by some member of the Senior 
Class, and sung in the chapel on class-day. In addition 
to the above, I have been able to find but two student songs 
that were written here and sung generally. There has been, 
however, quite a number of "jovial strains" and "hearty 
choruses" floating among the different classes from year to 
year, but they are not original with us, and are not of such 
a character as to reflect credit on our College. * * * 

The days we spend at college, we are told by graduates, 
are the most pleasant of our lives. If this be true with 
respect to those institutions, where music is not much 
cultivated, in how much higher a sense must it be true with 
respect to those in which " music rules the hour." It is to 
be hoped, then, that henceforth singing will be a distinctive 
feature in all our public exercises, that more glee-clubs will 
be formed, and that all, whenever collected, whether they 
can sing or not, will join in the hearty song, that thus the 
enthusiastic song-spirit, which so marks the student-life in 
Germany, and makes it, in truth, the heyday of their exist- 
ence, may be infused into us. 

Andrew J. Hetrick. 
Nassau Hall, April 11th, 1859. 



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Page 29, line 16. 

The spirit of the undergraduates during the 
trying months which immediately preceded the 
beginning of the active hostilities of the Civil 
War, is shown by the letters in contemporary 
Autograph Albums. In such books it was then 
the custom for a man, before leaving Princeton, 
to ask his classmates and friends, both in College 
and in the town, to sign their names under such 
sentiments as they may choose to write. It 
is from the Autograph Album of the late George 
W. Purnell '62, of Snow Hill, Maryland, that 
the following examples have been taken. When 
these were written, Mr. Purnell, then in his 
Junior year, had already left College, run the 
blockade and enlisted in the Confederate Army. 



May 15th, '61. 
Dear Purnell: 

I regret the necessity which urges me thus prematurely 
to consign to the autographic proof-sheets of friendship and 
esteem, my final parting and farewell. The civil and sec- 
tional agitation which requires your departure is certainly 
lamentable; but do not, in your devotion to what you may 
esteem the nobler and truer cause, neglect to accord to your 
Northern classmates, feelings towards you of cordial and 
devoted interest. 



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NOTES 

May "Dame Fortune" bestow her favors profusely upon 
your life and condition, and never induce you to disregard as 

Your friend and classmate, 

H. H. Robinson of N. J. 
Class '62, 
Room 7 West. 

Dear George: 

* * * * 

The final issue appears to have come. Already we are in 
a condition almost unparalleled in our national history,and 
the clouds are gathering thicker and darker. I hope and 
believe we will be all right yet, and ere long feel that we are 
free. It is with much regret that I think of leaving Old 
Nassau, whose shades I once so much loved.* * * * 

Whether in war or peace you have my best wishes and 
warmest regards. 

Your classmate, fellow Whig and true friend, 

E. G. McClure, 
Class 1862, Tenn. 

April 20, 1861. 

Dear Purnell: 

This little world called College is now in a furore of ex- 
citement, and autographs have been thrown off with a 
rapidity that does not give the writer time to express his 
sorrowful feelings at parting with so many friends, especially 
in view of the uncertainty of what awaits us and our country. 
Your sincere friend and classmate, 

CD. Roberts, 
Room 2, East, Virginia. 

F. C. S. 

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"OLD NASSAU" 

Dear Purnell: 

It is indeed an occasion for sadness when one is compelled 

to say Good-bye to so many of his classmates a year before 

our class graduates, for our number is now greatly decreased 

and we therefore cannot spare you. 

Jno. Cochran. 
Class '62, 
Newton, N. J. 

Dear Purnell: 

Fight for the 17th Reg't and the good old State of Mary- 
land. Your friend, 

H. A. Steinecke, Md. 
1861. 

Dear Purnell: 

Though I much regret your leaving, and the causes, I 
can give you a hearty " God bless you " as you take leave 
of your college friends. Ever remember me as 

Sincerely your friend and classmate, 

S. H. Pennington, Jr., 

Class 1862, of New Jersey. 

Room 25 East. 
F. C. S. 

Mr. Peck wrote letters in the Autograph Al- 
bums of many of his classmates and friends. The 
editor has seen several of these, in each of which 
was an original poem showing the natural gravity 
and the religious bent of Mr. Peck's mind. He 
was a member of Clio Hall, and, as was then the 
custom, wrote with his signature the initials 
"F. C. S." (Fellow of the Cliosophic Society). 

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NOTES 

Page 40, line 3. 

Dear George: 

I remember the first time we met. It was on the night 
of our "Soph horn-spree" when you, Mclntyre and myself 
were chased through the fields back of the Gymnasium by 
some of the Faculty, with our faces blackened up to prevent 
detection. * * * 

Your sincere friend, 

George A. Branner, 
Class '62. Mossy Creek, Tenn. 

From the Autograph Album o) George W. Purnell '62. 



Page 30, line 24. 

Nassau Hall, in those days, was very generally 
called "Old North" or "North College." 



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eOPYRIQHTeO BY ■. H. flOSI A SON 

Nassau Hall, Commencement Day, 1004 



FES. 5 1906 



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